[ad_1] By ALEX BRUMMER Updated: 21:50, 14 February 2025 This week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave its go-ahead, after nine months of delay, to BlackRock’s £2.6billion purchase of City-based alternative investment platform Preqin. Aside from making its founder, the Suffolk farmer Mike O’Hare, very rich, the deal illustrates the Government’s confused approach to…
[ad_1] Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds carelessly waving deal through Reynolds, board and CWU cajoled into thinking takeover is a good thing Keir Starmer should intervene before more damage is done to UK plc By ALEX BRUMMER Updated: 16:50 EST, 7 February 2025 One cannot but despair of Labour’s dealings with commerce. Despite all the pro-business…
[ad_1] Bond markets have calmed in recent weeks but investors have good reason to remain nervous after the New Year rout. Yields from government debt have retreated from earlier highs, but concerns about inflation and the prospect of slower interest rate cuts are still prevalent. Returning US president Donald Trump is threatening a trade war…
[ad_1] By DAILY MAIL CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 04:25 EST, 31 January 2025 Marks & Spencer is cutting the price of children’s clothes as kidswear becomes its next battleground to gain market share. It hopes to entice more families as part of the turnaround drive that has lifted it from the doldrums. Under boss…
[ad_1] Kromek Group left investors cheering this week as it unmasked a road to profitability via a deal with Siemens Healthineers. Shares in the radiation and bio-detection specialist rocketed almost 38 per cent, fuelled by Thursday’s news of the $37.5million (£30.2million) cash deal with the German medical technology giant. Equipment to produce cadmium zinc telluride…
[ad_1] By EMMA GILTHORPE ROYAL MAIL CHIEF EXECUTIVE Updated: 17:01 EST, 30 January 2025 Off the west coast of Scotland, there is a small island called Kerrera. It’s home to just 35 people and an array of wildlife, including several peacocks. Mark is one of the island’s residents and the local postie. Every Monday to…
[ad_1] By ALEX BRUMMER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 17:01 EST, 30 January 2025 The Ofcom review of Royal Mail focuses on how best to ensure a reliable delivery service for consumers amid the fast-declining volumes of post. The regulator has come down on the side of a less frequent second-class, low-price service and a…
[ad_1] The Register of Judgments, Orders and Fines is not a place you want to find your name, says retired judge Stephen Gold. If you end up on it, the ramifications for you or any business you own could be considerable – and for some time. You may even be refused a mortgage or credit…
[ad_1] By SIMON LAMBERT Updated: 15:15, 28 January 2025 The investing world’s attention has been firmly on soaraway US growth stocks over the past couple of years but there is a contrarian opportunity to profit closer to home, says Iain McCombie. The co-manager of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust says that high quality, UK growth…
[ad_1] By SIMON LAMBERT Updated: 10:15 EST, 28 January 2025 The investing world’s attention has been firmly on soaraway US growth stocks over the past couple of years but there is a contrarian opportunity to profit closer to home, says Iain McCombie. The co-manager of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust says that high quality, UK…